Alex Braczkowski

It's actually a wildlife campus that's located on the edge of the Kruger National Park in South Africa, our largest and wildest national park in South Africa.

And

Basically, it was about a year-long course teaching, you know, students from all sort of walks of life on how to track animals, basic biology and conservation, and also even showing guests what to and what not to do around wildlife on safari.

Yeah, I think so.

And yeah, just, you know, there's, I think increasingly there's fewer and fewer, you know, wild spaces.

And what I mean by wild spaces, I don't necessarily mean where people are not found.

There's a lot of places where you find people in wildlife living together across the world.

What I mean specifically is this idea of big fierce animals living with us.

So things like elephants, things like,

You know, Cape buffalo, African lions, leopards, tigers, whatever they might be, those are becoming rarer.

So I think that was the drawcard of the Wildlife College was the ability to live alongside things like elephants.

Yeah, that's one of the academic sort of gems of South Africa that not many people know about.

They know about the University of Cape Town, but they don't know that there's a smaller campus about 300 kilometres east called the Nelson Mandela University School of Natural Resource Management.

And what's incredible about this place is it's nestled into the heart of the Cape Fold Mountains and also some of the last temperate forests of South Africa.

So you have...

Yeah, a campus that's actually also got big animals living on it.

So you've got leopards running around there.

You've got caracal running around there.

So there's a little, there's a campus section called Fern Tech.

It's like where the furniture training, the equivalent of TAFE, takes place.